The Names
"The Names" tells the story of a boy growing up Indian in America. When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's firstborn. Therefore, Ashima and Ashoke decided to postpone the decision on the baby's name until a letter arrived from India. For now, the crib in the hospital is simply marked BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes and no letter arrives, the American bureaucracy intervenes and demands that "baby boy Ganguli" be given a name. Panicked, his father decides to nickname him "Gogol," after his favorite writer.
Raised Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli quickly feels the urge to shed his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the values inherited from his Bengali parents. He forges his own path in life, one fraught with conflicting loyalties, love, and loss. Spanning three decades and continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's long-awaited first novel is a triumph of human storytelling. Elegant, subtle, and moving, "The Names" is for anyone who enjoyed the clarity, sympathy, and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, "Interpreter of Maladies."
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